Seals, Stamps, and Sealings

These objects are either used for marking objects, or are reminants of the impressions. These include stamps for bricks, cylinder seals, and seal impressions. They are made of stone terricotta for impressing clay or mud.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16022	31-43-39, 31-43-39	(none)	(none)	Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragmentary . d.Sulpae son of... HC.30/I.8. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16026	31-43-23	(none)	(none)	Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragment. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16819	(none)	(none)	(none)	Steatite cylinder seal. (fragment) (not pierced). Na-bi-u(m...) Son of...
16818	(none)	(none)	(none)	Steatite cylinder seal. Awel-^dAdad, the attendant of the ...son of...
16803	(none)	1931,1010.33	(none)	Steatite cylinder seal.
16807	(none)	(none)	(none)	Steatite cylinder seal.
16808	(none)	(none)	(none)	Steatite cylinder seal.
17833	(none)	(none)	(none)	Statuette of reclining dog (?). Calcite. Originally, colored bright red (some of color left) with eyes filled in with black. The beast has a ruff and a bushy tail. A hole is pierced from the top of the back to the stomach. On the under side a seal cutting (much perished) showing animals mostly cut with the drill.
19974	35-1-18	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1]
19975	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1]
18361	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. White marble. Convex above: oval, flat below with a crude design of drilled spots. [drawing 1:1]
19873	(none)	1935,0112.71	(none)	Stamp seal. White calcite. Triangular with rounded corner. One corner missing : on the remaining surface, 2 animals.
17380	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Stone. Mottled. Crescent moon, circles and spears (?). [drawing]
17024	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Steatite. Mottled grey. Hero between a pair of antelopes? Rampant very faintly outlined. [drawing]
17339	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Steatite. Dark grey. Oval. Scorpion.
17338	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Oblong sides convex. [drawing]
17100	31-43-67	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]
11449	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Square with tubular handle, one corner anciently broken. Scene: a worshipper before Ningal.
1423	(none)	(none)	B15596	Stamp seal. Square button in terracotta with rude incised device of a bird standing among plants. [drawing]
14441A	(none)	1930,1213.140	(none)	Stamp seal. Shell. Archaic. Perforated horizontally through top twice. Seal is cut to represent calf with head bent back over the body. Under side engraved with design of 3 bird headed men rowing a bellum. The bellum is made of reeds intertwined vertically and horizontally. From the furrow and stem of the boat a spike (?) for ramming protrudes horizontally to the line of the boat. Each figure appears to have a circular shield (?) round the body.
17797	32-40-345	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
17630	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Red pebble. Roughly circular, but one side worn away = top convex, underside flat with crude design, drill worked, of two animals (?) much obliterated. [drawing]
16760	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Quartz. Shaped like a flattened truncated cone with base slightly convex and 4 sides.
16211	31-43-1	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
18167	32-40-320	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Of dark and light grey pebble. Rectangular, with slightly convex top, pierced longitudinally. Rough design on base, of a man with his arms raised and his legs twisted up in an impossible fashion (?) [drawing]